During a recent InvestorTalk interview hosted by Tracy Hughes, Tom Drivas, CEO and Director of Appia Rare Earths & Uranium Corp. (CSE: API | OTCQB: APAAF), introduced the company’s new President, Kurt Radtke, and outlined an increasingly active period across Appia’s rare earth and uranium portfolio.Radtke was appointed President effective September 1, 2026, bringing more than 20 years of international mining and operational leadership experience to the company. His career has included responsibility for large-scale drilling, field operations, logistics and exploration programs across several continents, including serving as Vice President of Field Operations and Logistics, Exploration and Resource Development for Saudi Arabian mining company Maaden.Asked by Hughes what attracted him to Appia, Radtke pointed to both the company’s existing work and the scale of its land position.“I looked at the company, and I was just really enthralled with what they’ve done so far and the land that they’re sitting on,” he said. “I think that Appia has just got an amazing story to tell.”Drivas said the appointment followed a year-long search for someone capable of helping move Appia’s collection of projects forward. What distinguished Radtke was not simply his executive background, but his experience managing drilling programs and converting technical plans into activity on the ground.For Drivas, Radtke’s value lies in his ability to turn plans into action. “He’s an operations guy,” Drivas said. “We have all these projects, and we would like to have somebody who can really help us move those projects forward.”One of the principal subjects of the interview was Appia’s Brazilian rare earth exposure. Appia holds a 25% interest in Ultra Rare Earth Inc., which indirectly owns 100% of the Ultra Hard Rock and Ultra Ionic Adsorption Clay projects in Goiás State. Together, the two projects cover approximately 42,932 hectares and contain two distinct forms of mineralization: hard rock rare earths associated with carbonatites and rare earths hosted in ionic adsorption clays.Drivas said Ultra currently has six drills operating in Brazil and has completed an S-K 1300 technical report covering the hard rock carbonatite portion of the property. He added that Ultra intends to complete a separate resource estimate for the ionic clay mineralization over the coming months, followed by a preliminary economic assessment and then pre-feasibility work.The pace of work reflects the importance Ultra has assumed within the broader Appia story. Appia’s 25% equity position allows the company to retain meaningful exposure to the Brazilian projects while Ultra advances an extensive drilling and development program.In Canada, management identified the 100%-owned Otherside uranium property in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin as an increasingly important priority. On August 31, Appia reported that the final interpretation of two lines from its 2026 SPARTAN magnetotelluric survey had outlined several additional preliminary uranium drill targets.Drivas described the geophysical story developing at Otherside as particularly encouraging and said success there could require a substantial drilling commitment. That possibility is one reason Radtke’s background has become relevant so quickly.Radtke agreed that the property carries considerable potential but emphasized the importance of disciplined target selection. “We need to make sure that we’re putting our rigs on the right spot and getting the data that we need to have,” he said.Radtke also expressed enthusiasm for Appia’s Alces Lake rare earth property in northern Saskatchewan. The company recently completed six diamond drill holes at Alces Lake, with rare earth-bearing monazite visually identified in three of them. Three originally planned holes and ten additional targets remain available for potential follow-up work.To read the full column, go to: https://bit.ly/4yipw7g

Fox Tungsten Ltd. (TSXV: FOXT) is combining an aggressive exploration campaign with a financial structure designed to keep drilling capital focused on the ground. In a recent InvestorNews interview, President, CEO and Director Stephen Gray discussed the company’s C$2 million share payment from Metal Energy Corp. (TSXV: MERG), its fully funded 20,000 metre drill program and the path toward a Preliminary Economic Assessment targeted for the second quarter of 2027.The C$2 million payment originates from Fox Tungsten’s 2024 sale of the Highland Valley copper project to Metal Energy. Under the agreement, Fox Tungsten, then operating as Happy Creek Minerals Ltd., received C$300,000 in cash and an equity position in Metal Energy at closing, along with C$6 million in deferred consideration and a net smelter return royalty of up to 2.5%.In August, Fox Tungsten received 2,358,797 Metal Energy common shares with an aggregate deemed value of C$2 million. The shares, issued at a deemed price of C$0.85, satisfied the first two deferred consideration payments under the agreement. Fox Tungsten now holds 4,233,217 Metal Energy shares, with a further C$4 million scheduled through payments of C$1.5 million and C$2.5 million on the third and fourth anniversaries of the transaction.Gray described the payment as an important financial backstop for Fox Tungsten. Once the shares are eligible for sale following their statutory hold period, the proceeds can provide non-flow-through capital for general and administrative expenses and technical work, including the planned PEA.“When we go to the market and raise money, we are raising flow-through capital to drill and put that money into the ground,” Gray explained. “Because we have those hard dollars, we have that backstop.”That distinction matters as Fox Tungsten advances its flagship project, located approximately 75 kilometres northeast of 100 Mile House in south central British Columbia. The current NI 43-101 mineral resource estimate includes 582,400 tonnes grading 0.826% WO₃ in the Indicated category and 565,000 tonnes grading 1.231% WO₃ in the Inferred category. The company describes Fox as hosting one of the highest-grade tungsten resources in the Western world.Gray went further during the interview, stating that, to his knowledge, Fox is the highest-grade tungsten resource globally. To put the grade into terms more familiar to the broader market, he compared 1% tungsten with approximately 22 grams per tonne gold or 25% copper based on recent spot prices. The comparison illustrates the potential metal value of the grade but does not account for recoveries, processing costs, payabilities or other economic factors.“This is something special,” Gray said. “We think we are going to be able to maintain that grade as we grow, and we look forward to sharing more results with the market.”The company’s fully funded 20,000 metre drill program is the largest exploration campaign in its history. Two drill rigs are currently operating, with Gray indicating that a third is expected to be added as the program advances toward completion in late October. Assay results are expected to be released progressively through the remainder of 2026.The program is testing the company’s interpretation that the BN, RC and BK zones could form part of a larger, connected mineralized system. In a July exploration update, Fox Tungsten reported visible scheelite in all three completed exploration holes at Fox North and all seven resource expansion holes completed at the RC Zone. The company cautioned that these visual observations are preliminary and that laboratory assays are required to determine tungsten grades.To read the full column, go to: https://bit.ly/4gV3lNw

Silver Bullet Mines Corp. (TSXV: SBMI | OTCQB: SBMCF) is moving from agreement to execution as it prepares to supply mineralized material and concentrates to Ocean Partners US Inc. In a new InvestorNews interview with Tracy Hughes, Vice President of Capital Markets and Director Peter Clausi explained why the Columbia / Gold Queen Complex has become the company’s near-term production priority.Silver Bullet Mines entered into its five-year framework agreement with Ocean Partners in March 2026. The agreement contemplates the sale of up to 36,000 tons of product annually from the company’s Arizona operations, with the potential for that volume to increase.The Ocean Partners agreement itself has not changed. What has changed is Silver Bullet Mines’ decision about which property is best positioned to provide the required tonnage.“We have figured out that production can come from the Columbia,” Clausi said.The decision followed months of fieldwork, infrastructure development and operational analysis. Although Silver Bullet Mines continues to report encouraging grades from its other Arizona properties, management concluded that those mines are not presently capable of supplying the volumes required under the Ocean Partners agreement. The company therefore intends to prioritize the Columbia / Gold Queen Complex and return capital to its other properties after revenue is generated from the complex.For Clausi, the work illustrates a fundamental reality of mine development that can be overlooked amid discussions of grades and geological potential.“These are the logistics and the guts that make a mining project successful,” he explained. “You don’t just rush in. You do your science, you figure it out.”From the Columbia Mine to the Globe MillThe Columbia and Gold Queen mines are contiguous past producing properties in Arizona’s Dripping Springs Mining District, approximately 30 miles from Silver Bullet Mines’ wholly owned mill in Globe. Their proximity supports the company’s hub and spoke operating model, under which the Globe mill serves as the central processing facility for material obtained from multiple nearby properties.Silver Bullet Mines began developing this model in 2020 when it elected to construct the mill before expanding production across its portfolio. According to Clausi, owning the mill gives the company greater control over costs, processing and the selection of properties capable of providing the most attractive material.The company announced on August 26th that it had commenced processing material from the Columbia / Gold Queen Complex. Silver Bullet Mines estimated that approximately 80 tons had been delivered to the Globe mill, with additional shipments expected.The company plans to supply Ocean Partners with two products. Mineralized material transported to the Globe mill will be processed into concentrate, while direct shipping ore will be crushed at the mine site and shipped without going through the mill.“DSO is kind of the holy grail for any miner,” Clausi said. “There’s no other processing, so it’s a very low-cost form of revenue generation.” Adding that Silver Bullet Mines has ordered a portable crushing plant designed to reduce the material to the specifications required by Ocean Partners. To read the full column, go to: https://bit.ly/4gJH19nDisclaimer: Video interviews and other video content published by InvestorNews are produced as part of paid media services. The issuer or company featured in this video has compensated InvestorNews for the creation and publication of such content. The views expressed in these interviews are those of the interviewees or guests and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or positions of InvestorNews, its writers, or its affiliates. For full details, please refer to our complete disclaimer at www.investornews.com/disclaimer

Speaking from the core shack in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle, Oreterra CEO Kevin Keough explains why bornite, chalcopyrite, magnetite and red garnet have strengthened the company’s geological interpretation—and why assays remain the decisive test.Oreterra Metals Corp. (TSXV: OTMC | OTCQB: OTMCF | FSE: D4R0) has reached one of mineral exploration’s most compelling stages: the point at which a geological theory meets the drill core. In a new InvestorNews interview, CEO and Director Kevin M. Keough joined Tracy Hughes from the Trek South camp, where the company is conducting the first drill program ever undertaken on the copper-gold prospect.The discussion followed Oreterra’s August 25 drilling update. The company reported strong porphyry-style alteration in hole TS26-06, together with local bornite, chalcopyrite and magnetite mineralization, as well as epidote and red garnet. Oreterra believes this combination may indicate that drilling is approaching the source intrusion thought to centre the Trek South porphyry system.Why the Minerals MatterBornite and chalcopyrite are copper-bearing sulphide minerals, while magnetite and garnet can form in the hotter parts of a mineralizing system. Their appearance alongside increasingly strong alteration gives Oreterra’s team additional evidence that it may be moving inward from the outer alteration halo toward the intrusive source.“I’m not interested in just drilling a bunch of pretty rock,” Keough said. “It’s got to have the right sulphides, it’s got to have copper. And that’s why we got excited.”That excitement is not confirmation of a commercially viable deposit. Keough emphasized that visual observations cannot determine whether the intervals contain economic grades. Copper, gold and silver values must be established through laboratory analysis.“Visuals alone won’t tell us whether we’ve hit an economic body,” he said. “We do think we will have values of metal in what we’ve drilled. It’ll be up to the assays to determine to what level.”Drilling From the Outside InBecause Trek South had never been drilled, Oreterra designed its initial campaign using surface geology, alteration, geochemistry and geophysical data. The company is drilling progressively from the outside of the altered area inward, with each hole helping refine the potential location of the intrusive source.Current holes are targeting depths of approximately 600 metres. The initial objective is to locate the system in plan view before potentially testing it at greater depths in a future program.“The idea is to find near surface where we really need to be,” Keough explained. “Then we will follow what we hope to be the root of this system to depth.”Drilling has progressed somewhat more slowly than anticipated because of rugged terrain, drill-pad requirements and other operational challenges. Nevertheless, Keough said the geological results have met the team’s expectations. He and Vice President of Exploration John Biczok have remained at the camp, allowing the company to adjust subsequent holes as new core is examined.Assays Will Guide the Next StageLaboratory results will determine the copper, gold and silver grades present and help Oreterra decide where to drill next. Assay timing remains uncertain because late summer is typically a busy period for laboratories.For more information, visit oreterra.com.Disclaimer: Video interviews and other video content published by InvestorNews are produced as part of paid media services. The issuer or company featured in this video has compensated InvestorNews for the creation and publication of such content. The views expressed are those of the interviewees or guests and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or positions of InvestorNews, its writers or its affiliates. For full details, please refer to our complete disclaimer at www.investornews.com/disclaimer

CEO Jim Atkinson tells InvestorNews host Tracy Hughes that high grades, new exploration zones, visible gold and access to Western processing could distinguish the New Brunswick antimony projectAntimony has moved from relative obscurity to the centre of the Western critical minerals debate, and Antimony Resources Corp. (CSE: ATMY | OTCQB: ATMYF) believes its Bald Hill Project in southern New Brunswick has the grade, location and development potential to help address the emerging supply gap.In a new InvestorNews interview, host Tracy Hughes spoke with Antimony Resources CEO and Director Jim Atkinson about the metal’s strategic importance, the changing antimony market, recent drilling at Bald Hill and the work required to move a North American project toward production.“Antimony is probably the most important metal nobody knows about,” Atkinson said. “It is a military metal,” with uses in ammunition and lead alloys, while antimony trioxide is widely used as a flame retardant in industrial products, vehicle interiors, textiles and military applications.That broad industrial role has been overtaken by an urgent geopolitical concern. China imposed controls on antimony exports in 2024 and subsequently prohibited exports to the United States, exposing the vulnerability created by concentrated mining and processing capacity. The United States currently has no domestic mined source of antimony in production, even though the material is required in defence, semiconductors, energy storage and numerous industrial products.High Grade and Geography Give Bald Hill Strategic RelevanceFor Atkinson, Bald Hill’s principal advantages are grade and geography. The company describes it as the highest-grade antimony deposit in North America, with drilling outlining mineralization along more than 600 metres of the Main Zone and to a depth of at least 350 metres, while remaining open in all directions.In August, Antimony Resources reported 3.29% antimony and 1.97 grams per tonne gold over 3.05 metres, including 13.0% antimony and 2.22 g/t gold over 0.65 metres. Its technical report sets out a conceptual exploration target of approximately 2.7 million tonnes grading between 3% and 4% antimony.Bald Hill has road and power access, lies approximately 45 kilometres from a deepwater port and is close to the U.S. market. The company has also met with New Brunswick’s Technical Review Committee to identify the requirements for a future permit application.Processing Options Are Emerging Outside ChinaAtkinson challenged the assumption that Canadian antimony concentrate would have to be shipped to China. Western capacity remains limited, but alternatives are emerging.Canada is supporting a potential expansion of Teck Resources Limited’s Trail Operations in British Columbia that could double its germanium and antimony capacity. Australia’s Nyrstar Port Pirie facility made its first commercial shipment of antimony metal in February 2026, while United States Antimony Corporation operates established processing capacity in Montana.Antimony Resources is also considering hydrometallurgical processing at or near Bald Hill, which could potentially produce a higher-value antimony product rather than a concentrate.“There are some possibilities outside of China,” Atkinson said.Visible Gold Adds a New DimensionTo read the full column, go to: https://bit.ly/3UoTx6DDisclaimer: Video interviews and other video content published by InvestorNews are produced as part of paid media services. The issuer or company featured in this video has compensated InvestorNews for the creation and publication of such content. The views expressed in these interviews are those of the interviewees or guests and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or positions of InvestorNews, its writers, or its affiliates. For full details, please refer to our complete disclaimer at www.investornews.com/disclaimer

Craig Lindsay tells InvestorNews host Tracy Hughes how drilling, two FAST-41 designations and a domestic processing strategy are advancing Resolution Minerals’ Idaho critical minerals projectResolution Minerals Ltd. (ASX: RML | OTCQB: RLMLF) is developing an unusually broad critical minerals proposition in Idaho: a single project that combines historically mined antimony and tungsten with an emerging large-scale gold system and a potential pathway to domestic processing.In a new InvestorNews interview, host Tracy Hughes spoke with Craig Lindsay, CEO of U.S. Operations for Resolution Minerals, about the company’s rapidly advancing, 100%-owned Horse Heaven Project. The approximately 15,000-acre property is located in Idaho’s historic Stibnite mining district and shares its eastern boundary with Perpetua Resources Corp.’s Stibnite Gold Project.“At the 40,000-foot level, we are a critical metals story with a project in Idaho,” Lindsay said. However, the story is increasingly being defined by three complementary opportunities: high-grade antimony at Antimony Ridge, tungsten at the past-producing Golden Gate mine and a growing gold discovery at the broader Golden Gate prospect.The most recent evidence of that scale came from the first three 2026 drill results at Golden Gate South. All three holes intersected broad gold mineralization, led by 305.7 metres grading 0.64 grams per tonne gold from surface in hole HH-GG26-003C. The result extended known mineralization at least two kilometres south of Golden Gate North, where earlier drilling returned intervals including 253 metres grading 1.50 g/t gold from surface.Resolution had completed 33 diamond holes totalling approximately 9,700 metres when the latest results were released, with a substantial assay pipeline still ahead. The company’s 2026 program contemplates up to 13,700 metres across as many as 45 holes and is intended to test the scale and continuity of gold and tungsten mineralization across Golden Gate North and South.Lindsay described the gold system as a potentially important “backstop” to the critical minerals strategy. Resolution is targeting a maiden Mineral Resource Estimate in the first quarter of 2027, subject to successful exploration results. Until that work is completed, Golden Gate’s scale remains an exploration thesis, but the length and width of the reported intersections have given the market considerably more geological evidence with which to assess it.Antimony Ridge provides a different kind of opportunity. Historic trenches exposed very high-grade stibnite mineralization that was mined during the First World War, Second World War and Korean War. More recent surface sampling has returned assays as high as 48.7% antimony and 890 g/t silver, reinforcing the target’s potential at a time when the United States is seeking secure domestic sources of antimony for defence and industrial uses.Golden Gate also hosts a past-producing underground tungsten mine that operated intermittently from approximately 1952 to 1980, with reported production grades ranging from 1.5% to 2.0% tungsten. Resolution has acquired the nearby Johnson Creek Mill site and associated historic stockpiles. A 93.6-kilogram composite sample from those stockpiles returned 1.85% tungsten trioxide, with scheelite identified as the predominant tungsten-bearing mineral.To read the full column, go to: https://bit.ly/4cfB5DEDisclaimer: Video interviews and other video content published by InvestorNews are produced as part of paid media services. The issuer or company featured in this video has compensated InvestorNews for the creation and publication of such content. The views expressed in these interviews are those of the interviewees or guests and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or positions of InvestorNews, its writers, or its affiliates. For full details, please refer to our complete disclaimer at www.investornews.com/disclaimer

New CEO Simon Thibault tells Jack Lifton that customer specifications, a practical route into manufacturing and global cost competitiveness must come before mine development.Scandium Canada Ltd. (TSXV: SCD) is entering its next phase with a distinctly industrial strategy: sell advanced aluminum scandium products, establish customer demand and allow that market to pull the company’s Crater Lake scandium project toward production.In a new InvestorNews interview, Critical Minerals Institute Co-Chair Jack Lifton spoke with Simon Thibault, who was appointed President and CEO of Scandium Canada and President of its wholly owned Scalium+ subsidiary effective August 24, 2026.The leadership change concludes a planned succession process. Former CEO Guy Bourassa remains a director and has become Strategic Advisor to Management, supporting the continued advancement of the Crater Lake Project.Thibault credited Bourassa with establishing the company’s foundation and completing the acquisition of Ferreol Technologies, which was subsequently renamed Scalium+. He said the company is now moving at a different speed and requires a management skill set focused on manufacturing, commercialization and industrial supply chains.“What really differentiates us from the others is the fact that we have a business, Scalium+,” Thibault said. “We have customers and clients, and we are producing aluminum scandium alloys for the market right now.”More Than a Mining ProjectScandium Canada’s strategy rests on two connected businesses. Upstream, the company is advancing its Crater Lake primary scandium project in Nunavik, Québec. Downstream, Scalium+ is developing and commercializing aluminum scandium alloys and related technologies for advanced manufacturing.The company acquired Ferreol Technologies in June 2026, bringing together Scandium Canada’s proprietary alloy development work with Ferreol’s Scalium® alloys, commercial team, established production workflow and existing customers.That downstream capability is what separates Scandium Canada from companies whose business models depend entirely on financing, permitting and constructing a mine before reaching the customer.Lifton described Scandium Canada as the most advanced scandium company of its kind in the Western world because it is already operating as a manufacturer and seller of scandium-based materials while continuing to develop a future primary source of supply.“You are actually in business as a manufacturer and seller of scandium-based goods, and at the same time, you are developing a mine,” Lifton said.For Thibault, that sequence is deliberate. His strategy begins with the customer and the finished material rather than with the mineral deposit.“Our business strategy is to start from the product,” he said. “We do not start from a mine and try to push a mine onto the market. We start from the market with a product and create a pull on the mine.”Under that model, Crater Lake ultimately becomes the solution to a supply constraint created by commercial success. Scalium+ can initially source scandium oxide and master alloy from existing suppliers while it establishes markets for its products. As demand expands, the company expects those existing sources will become insufficient, strengthening the commercial case for developing Crater Lake.To read the full column, go to: https://bit.ly/3UfigKIDisclaimer: Video interviews and other video content published by InvestorNews are produced as part of paid media services. The issuer or company featured in this video has compensated InvestorNews for the creation and publication of such content. The views expressed in these interviews are those of the interviewees or guests and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or positions of InvestorNews, its writers, or its affiliates. For full details, please refer to our complete disclaimer at www.investornews.com/disclaimer

Spartan Metals Corp. (TSXV: W | OTCQB: SPRMF) has commenced its maiden drilling program at the 100% owned Eagle Tungsten-Silver-Rubidium Project in Nevada. The program puts drills into the ground as the United States moves from encouraging secure defense supply chains to imposing more demanding sourcing requirements. In a recent InvestorNews interview, Spartan President, CEO and Director Brett Marsh said that shift has increased the importance of identifying reliable sources much further upstream.President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14415 on July 20, 2026. Beginning January 1, 2027, the order sharply limits waivers that have permitted defense contractors to acquire covered materials from designated non-allied nations. Where a waiver remains available, contractors will generally need an accepted mitigation plan identifying the non-compliant source, documenting efforts to obtain compliant material and setting a firm timetable for removing that source from the supply chain. “It moved from what used to be guidance and a general preference for contractors to obtain domestic sources to almost forcing them to develop domestic sources,” Marsh told InvestorNews host Tracy Hughes.The underlying statute, 10 U.S.C. 4872, specifically covers tungsten metal powder, tungsten heavy alloy and finished or semi-finished components containing that alloy. Executive Order 14415 goes further by directing the U.S. Department of War to require critical supply chains to be mapped through every tier, from raw materials to the finished products delivered to the department. “The government still does not understand how far back it needs to go in the supply chain,” Marsh said. Spartan occupies the earliest stage of that chain by exploring mineralization that could potentially become a traceable U.S. source.Traceability remains a difficult practical problem. Hughes noted that earlier attempts to follow minerals such as cobalt from mine to market have required substantial capital without necessarily producing reliable, widely adopted systems. Marsh expects more advanced digital tools to play a role and sees the sourcing and storage framework surrounding Project Vault as part of the broader effort, although he acknowledged that the necessary systems have not yet gained meaningful momentum. Project Vault is a public-private strategic reserve backed by a US$10 billion Export-Import Bank of the United States loan and nearly US$2 billion in private capital, but it is not by itself a complete mine-to-product traceability system.Against that policy backdrop, Spartan announced earlier today (August 24th) that up to 3,000 meters of diamond core drilling was underway at Eagle, approximately 120 kilometers northeast of Ely in White Pine County. The program is fully funded from working capital raised earlier in 2026. It will test the Southeast Tungsten Anomaly and its skarn potential, the tungsten-silver-rubidium vein system defined through recent surface exploration, and additional targets identified by induced polarization geophysics. The immediate objective is to assess the depth, continuity and geometry of the mineralization, with initial assay results expected as they become available later this year.Disclaimer: Video interviews and other video content published by InvestorNews are produced as part of paid media services. The issuer or company featured in this video has compensated InvestorNews for the creation and publication of such content. The views expressed in these interviews are those of the interviewees or guests and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or positions of InvestorNews, its writers, or its affiliates. For full details, please refer to our complete disclaimer at www.investornews.com/disclaimer

North America’s search for secure critical mineral supply is increasingly separating advanced projects from those that remain primarily conceptual. For West High Yield (W.H.Y.) Resources Ltd. (TSXV: WHY | FSE: W0H), the distinction rests on a series of milestones at its Record Ridge Industrial Mineral Mine Project near Rossland, British Columbia: a mining permit, a transportation access permit and a definitive agreement for the sale of magnesium-rich ore.In a recent InvestorNews interview, Director Barry Baim told host Tracy Hughes that the company is preparing to move Record Ridge from development toward construction and initial mining. West High Yield was established in 2003, and the project’s current position reflects more than two decades of exploration, engineering, permitting and community engagement. What now appears to be momentum, Baim emphasized, was built through years of patient project advancement.Record Ridge contains a measured and indicated resource of 43.0 million tonnes grading an average of 24.61% magnesium, equivalent to approximately 10.6 million tonnes of contained magnesium, according to the company’s NI 43-101 preliminary economic assessment. The mineralized material also contains silica, with nickel and iron offering additional potential value. That combination gives West High Yield a multi-product opportunity, although the company’s near-term commercial plan begins with the sale of magnesium-bearing ore rather than the immediate construction of a full-scale processing complex.The regulatory position changed materially in October 2025, when British Columbia issued the Mines Act permit authorizing construction and operation of the mine. In June 2026, the company received a separate provincial access permit covering the highway intersection and related transportation infrastructure needed to reach the site. West High Yield continues to work on detailed engineering, post-permit compliance and the remaining authorizations required before construction and operations can begin.The commercial anchor is the company’s definitive forward sales agreement with U.S.-based Galaxy Trade and Technology, LLC. Announced in March 2026, the agreement establishes an initial two-year term, with an option to extend the relationship to nine years, and sets a price of US$500 per metric tonne of ore during the initial term. Deliveries are expected to range from approximately 6,600 to 7,700 tonnes per week during operating months once production begins, creating potential annual revenue of more than US$30 million.The agreement also calls for an initial US$5 million deposit to help fund the first ore deliveries. For Baim, the importance of the arrangement goes beyond the headline revenue. A committed buyer provides third-party commercial validation and gives the company a clearer route from permitted project to cash-generating operation. “It shows that we have de-risked this project substantially,” he said, adding that West High Yield is approaching the point at which Record Ridge can move into commercialization.Disclaimer: Video interviews and other video content published by InvestorNews are produced as part of paid media services. The issuer or company featured in this video has compensated InvestorNews for the creation and publication of such content. The views expressed in these interviews are those of the interviewees or guests and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or positions of InvestorNews, its writers, or its affiliates. For full details, please refer to our complete disclaimer at www.investornews.com/disclaimer

American Tungsten Corp. (TSXV: TUNG | OTCQX: TUNGF | FSE: RK90) has established a substantially larger resource base at its past producing IMA Mine in Idaho. In a new InvestorNews interview with host Tracy Hughes, CEO and Director Ali Haji discussed the company’s newly announced mineral resource estimate, its plan to produce tungsten concentrate from historical tailings and the economic assumptions that will be tested in an upcoming Preliminary Economic Assessment.The mineral resource estimate includes 316,000 tonnes of indicated resources grading 0.55% tungsten trioxide, or WO₃, and 2.178 million tonnes of inferred resources grading 0.55% WO₃. Together, the underground resource contains approximately 13,680 tonnes of WO₃ and more than 2.25 million ounces of silver. A separate surface tailings resource contains 267,000 indicated tonnes grading 0.155% WO₃, with 413 tonnes of contained WO₃ and 79,000 ounces of silver.“When we started the company, the vision was to ensure that we had a seven to ten year mine life,” Haji said. He noted that the approximately 2.5 million tonne underground resource is more than eight times the roughly 300,000 tonnes contained in the historical estimate upon which the company began its work. The new estimate has an effective date of July 15, 2026, was prepared independently by Minetech, LLC and incorporates more than 17,000 feet of drilling completed by American Tungsten since December 2025.For Haji, the defining feature is the underground resource grade. The estimate was reported using a 0.20% WO₃ cut off based on a tungsten price of US$1,300 per metric tonne unit, total site operating costs of US$165 per tonne, 80% recovery and 80% payability. Silver and molybdenum occur alongside the tungsten and could provide valuable byproduct credits, although their economic contribution will need to be established through the company’s technical studies.“Grade is king,” Haji told InvestorNews. “Our head grade at 0.55% would be deemed the highest new resource announced in the United States.” He added that the proposed cut and fill underground mining method should allow American Tungsten to selectively mine the vein system while limiting the amount of waste entering the processing circuit.American Tungsten’s proposed first step toward production is the processing of the historical tailings already situated at IMA. Haji said metallurgical testing is underway and results are expected by the end of September. Subject to successful testing, engineering and commissioning, the company is targeting its first concentrate sale before Christmas 2026.“The tailings are homogeneous in nature and shovel ready, allowing us to bring production online quite quickly,” Haji said. Management estimates that the tailings could potentially generate between US$45 million and US$75 million in revenue over approximately two years, with relatively low mining costs because the material would not require conventional drilling or blasting. These projections remain forward looking, and the mineral resource estimate cautions that mineral resources are not mineral reserves and do not yet have demonstrated economic viability.To read the full column, go to: https://bit.ly/4ctbQOcDisclaimer: Video interviews and other video content published by InvestorNews are produced as part of paid media services. The issuer or company featured in this video has compensated InvestorNews for the creation and publication of such content. The views expressed in these interviews are those of the interviewees or guests and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or positions of InvestorNews, its writers, or its affiliates. For full details, please refer to our complete disclaimer at www.investornews.com/disclaimer